"Also some versions of the F-35 can't accelerate to supersonic speed without melting their own tails or shedding the expensive coating that helps to give the plane their radar-evading qualities".
I couldn't verify Axe's allegations but I wouldn't dismiss them either considering the numerous flaws already come to light.
Yet each year the Congress enacts a new National Defense Authorization Act, (NDAA) which the president signs into law.
For fiscal year 2023, $816.7 billion was designated for the Defense Department.
In reality the NDAA is basically rubber stamped each year which the Pentagon knows will pass basically unopposed. All to benefit the huge military contractors not just Lockheed Martin that manufactures the F-35.
The contractors don't care about the cost overruns they incur knowing they'll all be approved. Hell, the Pentagon can't even get its act together to produce an audit of the largesse in bloated $billion's it receives each year.
To call it a boondoggle is an understatement.
The last oversight of military spending was in 1943 by then US Senator Harry Truman's Senate Special Committee investigating waste, inefficiency and war profiteering. According to Wikipedia some 10-15 $billion was saved by this committee.
Today it would be incomprehensible for the Congress to initiate such oversight of the Defense Department.
That's because the Defense Department has installations in all 50 states providing jobs. Thus no politico in those states is going to be critical of the Defense Department.
Something rather genius-when one thinks about it; a smart yet sinister strategy by those who dreamed it up.
So despite the GAO report which should prompt the Congress to act I wouldn't bet on it. Two paragraphs above shows why.
[1] Pentagon may need another cash infusion for upkeep of F-35's-auditors, RT., May 31, 2023
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